CHAPTER 119

EPISODE………my own idea once again! A version of JOURNEY'S END, from Doctor Who. I really need to do more chapters dealing with my own ideas instead of what happens in the show. Really, I am trying to come up with stuff, but life is complicating things. And like other authors, they have more than one story going on so, it makes it hard right there as well. Why do you think it takes so long to update?

It was raining heavily outside while everyone inside was working or doing whatever it was they did on their days off. Since being on the mainland during one of these storms was a bad idea, mostly from flooding issues, everyone was in the city or off world as scheduled. Carter had finished her paperwork for the day, even though the day wasn't over and was glad because it meant she didn't have to wear out her fingers anymore that day, even if it was just to push buttons. Sally was with her and doing her school work while Ford was off in the future grabbing some items for various people in the city. He should have already returned but hadn't for some reason yet. Though she called, he said he was fine and on his way back pretty soon.

"Heard from him yet?" Sheppard asked as he entered the office.

"Not in the last hour." Carter said sitting back. "He should have returned by now."

"Probably talking to someone or something." Sheppard said offhandedly as Carter nodded. "You know how he is like that."

"Hey, is he back yet?" Rodney asked as he entered excitedly.

"Not yet." Sheppard said.

"Damn. I just got finished working and was hoping to watch Eureka right away." Rodney said with a frown.

"You really got everything done?" Sheppard asked feigning shock, because he knew Rodney always had some project or job he was doing.

"Well, not really. I mean there is…" Rodney began.

"I didn't think so." Sheppard said with a small smile. "What are you two doing first?"

"We plan on watching the new Doctor Who season." Carter said as she got up. "And Sally is looking forward to some of her cartoons she likes."

"I want to see all those sports. There is a lot of bets going on." Sheppard said happily.

"Do you bet with money?" Carter asked. "Out here, it is useless and by the time you return to Earth, you have a pretty big amount to play with."

"Sometimes. Usually it is for work schedules and other random chores, stuff like that." Sheppard said waving a hand. "Buying certain items for different people or groups also happens a lot."

"I know Ford is in a few bets where he'll make something for whoever wins, depending on his schedule. Or something like that." Rodney said. "Any idea where he is?"

"He might be talking to Teal'c. He mentioned something about a new Star Wars…something." Carter said while trying to remember what it was. "I want to say cartoon, but it could have been a bunch of books since Teal'c and quite a few other Jaffa have gotten into reading them."

"General Carter." Chuck said into her ear.

She touched the earpiece as she spoke.

"I hope this isn't bad news. What is it?" Carter asked ready to jump if there was trouble.

"He's back and currently walking to a transporter." Chuck said calmly as he heard her tone of voice.

"Thanks for the good news." Carter said signing off with a sigh of relief. "He's on his way boys."

"Oh good!" Rodney said rubbing his hands together. "Let me know when you two are done so I can watch those Doctor Who's."

"Ford…" Carter said touching the control on her desk while nodding.

"I'm making deliveries. I'll be right up and then we can get cozy…" Ford said with a sly tone over the line.

"And, I'm not alone." Carter said quickly in a sing song voice as she saw the two give her a smile, though Rodney didn't smile as much.

"That must be why Rodney isn't in his office. How many other people are up there waiting?" Ford asked while shifting the large bag on his shoulder.

"Just Sheppard." Carter said.

"Tell him that I am dropping his stuff off in his room along with that Johnny Cash record set he wanted. Same with Rodney's stuff." Ford said.

"Excellent!" Sheppard said happily as he clapped his hands together as he walked for the door. "Have a nice night Saml."

"I plan on it. I could use a good massage." Carter said rolling her neck as Rodney walked out and said goodnight.

"I'll meet you in the T.A.R.D.I.S. Sam. Your parents are going to watch…um, whatever show it is they like in their room on Atlantis. I got a rather large crate here and I don't remember all of what it was I got for them." Ford said.

"I'm on my way. Good night everyone. Please don't call unless it is a real emergency." Carter said to the night shift as she left while holding Sally who waved bye and got waves back.

"Long day?" Ford asked following her into their room and heading for the T.A.R.D.I.S after she got out of the transporter.

"Very long. Filling out forms for requisitioned items and personnel, signing off on so many tablets and other things." Carter said tiredly. "I just want a nice hot bath and then to sit and watch TV with you."

"You and Sally enjoy the bath while I cook. I've already showered and once we're done eating, we enjoy quality TV." Ford said giving her a quick kiss and then kissing Sally on the head.

"Did you get my stuff daddy?" Sally asked with excitement.

"I got more than your stuff. I got you a gift as well, but you'll have to wait until later tonight to see it." Ford said as she pouted. "If I give you the present now, you'd want to take it into the bath with you like your last stuffed animal."

"Okay." Sally said still pouting.

After the bath and eating, they watched one of her Digimon cartoons for an hour as she held a small stuffed Renamon animal in her arms. Carter didn't hate the show, but wasn't particularly interested in it either. Ford did like it, but then, he liked a lot of cartoons. Once Sally fell asleep, they put her in her room, in the city and then went to the T.A.R.D.I.S. to watch the Doctor on a theater sized screen he was able to create shortly after the Asguard installed the core inside his T.A.R.D.I.S. Dematerializing the T.A.R.D.I.S., they sat down and watched the newest season of Doctor Who most of the night and then went to sleep, got up and ate, had some personal fun and then went back to Doctor Who after getting cleaned up.

He had already downloaded the newest season into the T.A.R.D.I.S. databanks before coming back to Atlantis along with several other shows he and Sam liked. They were both in their robes and sitting against each other as they watched up to the latest episode that was the season final, which had a crossover with Torchwood and the Sarah Jane Chronicles they finished some hours ago. They were both pretty impressed with the story line and how it was all going as the people in Torchwood were getting ready to open the rift and call the Doctor with some program that the former Prime Minister, Harriet Jones, made in case the Doctor wasn't there to save the Earth like he pretty much always did.

"I wish we could look at that rift." Carter said with a sigh.

"Why?" Ford asked with wonder.

"Scientific curiosity." Carter stated. "What else?"

"Please tell me that Jack…" Ford began with a shudder.

"Jack O'Neill has more sex appeal than Jack Harkness. I wouldn't want to be with him anyway since he stuck his…" Carter began seeing him squirm.

"I get it." Ford said quickly with a grimace. "I don't need the visual image."

"You ever think that we'll or you'll see the Doctor…" Carter said as the rift activated on the screen and sent the call out to the Doctor.

They both jumped as the Cloister Bell began ringing.

"Is that on the screen…" Carter asked as he hit the pause quickly.

"You have to be kidding." Ford said getting up with her as the bell continued and their T.A.R.D.I.S. shook slightly.

"K-9, what's going on?" Carter asked as they ran through the halls towards the Console Room.

"The T.A.R.D.I.S. has picked up a distress signal and has locked unto it Mistress." K-9 reported.

They were both tossed into the wall as they entered the Console Room as the ship started flying through space and time, encountering a lot of turbulence for some reason.

"Who the hell could be calling us like this?" Ford muttered.

"What's happening?" Carter asked while getting off the floor as he was working on the controls and then looked at her. "I'm just fine, what's going on?"

"I'm not sure…" Ford said as the Console Room shook and almost knocked him away. "K-9, where are we going?!"

"Earth Master." K-9 stated.

"Who would be calling from Earth that could do this much to the T.A.R.D.I.S.?" Carter asked while gripping the console for support.

"Not even the SGC has anything set up to do this." Ford grumbled while working the controls.

"Signal indicates we are being called by Torchwood Mistress." K-9 stated.

"What?!" they both exclaimed.

"Torchwood doesn't exist!" Ford exclaimed while working on the console.

"We are in the Doctor's universe Master." K-9 stated.

He stopped in both excitement and shock, which made the room tilt and toss him into the wall as he stopped working on stabilizing the ship. She barely managed to hang on and right the room quickly while activating the screen as he was trying to get off the floor and wait for his body to repair broken bones.

"I am never going to get used to my body fixing itself. It is such a weird feeling." Ford muttered as he got to his feet.

"The Doctor's T.A.R.D.I.S. has been detected Master." K-9 reported.

He ran over quickly and gripped the console as they saw the Doctor's T.A.R.D.I.S. ahead of them as he was going down a ringed tunnel in space. Planets began popping up in the background and then the rings went away as both T.A.R.D.I.S's made it into the nebula.

"Holy Hannah! We're not only in his universe, we're in the same place….." Carter exclaimed.

"With his current adventure we were watching. This isn't good. We have no idea what is going to happen next." Ford said raising the shields quickly as he changed the shape to look like a black square block. "We could be in serious trouble here."

"A black square block?" Carter said as she looked at the screen on the console. "Seriously?"

"Any scans will show us as unknown and most scans will bounce off anyway. Coming in while looking like the Doctor's T.A.R.D.I.S could cause massive repercussions to this universe. Not to mention attention." Ford said as she nodded.

"What are we going to do?" Carter asked as he started out of the Console Room.

"Get dressed and help. Can't go out like this. No weapons and more importantly, no clothes." Ford said. "We could sit back and watch, but we were dragged here so we might as well help and then look around."

"So much for having fun again after the show was over." Carter grumbled.

"We are still going to have fun, just not sexually." Ford said. "The scientific side."

"Very true. I can't wait!" Carter said smiling at the thought.

"Why don't you ask her yourself?" Donna said while looking over his shoulder.

The Doctor turned and looked down the street seeing Rose, with a large gun of some sort in her arms, smiling as she saw him. Both started down the street towards each other and then into a run. Donna was watching with a smile as they got closer and closer. Rose suddenly stopped as she noticed a Dalek close by and tried to warn him.

"EXTERMINATE!"

The Doctor stopped and turned only to get shot instantly. The beam went through him, making him light up like a X-ray showing his skeleton for a moment as he dropped to the ground. Jack Harkness teleported nearby and used the weapon he got from the future with the Doctor sometime back, blowing the Dalek away quickly as Rose ran up and grabbed the Doctor while she tossed her gun aside.

"I've got you. I miss you. Look, it's me." Rose said emotionally while holding his head.

"Rose." the Doctor said weakly.

"Hi." Rose said while trying not to cry.

"Long time no see." the Doctor said having some trouble speaking from pain.

"Yes. Been busy, you know." Rose said as he jerked in pain again. "Don't die. You mustn't die. Don't die!"

He continued to groan and shift in pain while choking as she held him and told him to not die over and over. Donna and Jack ran up quickly with Jack looking for more Daleks.

"Give him into the T.A.R.D.I.S. Move!" Jack yelled.

Picking Rose's fallen gun up, he watched their backs as the two ladies dragged him up the street and into the T.A.R.D.I.S., laying him on the metal grate floor near the console.

"What do we do?! There must be some medicine or something!" Donna exclaimed in a panic.

"There is nothing we can do. Rose, do what I say and get back." Jack said as he set the guns in the bench chair by the console and went over to her. "He's dying and you know what happens next."

"He can't die! I didn't come all this way for this to happen!" Rose said crying as she held his convulsing body.

"What do you mean, what happens next?!" Donna exclaimed in Jack's face.

The Doctor looked at his hand, seeing it glowing with energy as Rose also saw it, still crying as she held him.

"It's starting." the Doctor said, wishing it not to.

"Here we go!" Jack said as he pulled Rose away. "Good luck Doctor!"

"What's happening?!" Donna exclaimed as the Doctor managed to get to his feet. "What is going on?!"

"He's dying. When that happens, his body repairs itself, it changes." Rose said holding onto Jack while wanting to run to the Doctor anyway. "But you can't!"
"I'm sorry Rose. I can't stop it!" the Doctor said pushing away from the console as his arms spread out. "I'm regenerating!"

Bright yellow light blasted out of the bottom of his pant cuffs, out the cuffs where his hands were and out of his neck as the regeneration effect took place. After a few seconds, he turned and put both hands together as the energy left his body, going into the hand, in a glass and metal container near the console, he lost when he changed into the current body and personality he was. It bubbled inside loud enough everyone heard it and then the flow of energy stopped. The Doctor stepped back into one of the large branch system supports as he breathed hard to their confused stares.

"Right then, where were we?" the Doctor asked like nothing happened and wearing a bright smile.

Sarah Jane Smith, in her off pink car, thought it was the end and that the two Daleks in front of her were going to blow her away. They kept yelling exterminate over and over and failed to fire as Ricky and Rose's mom appeared in a flash of light on either side of the car, blowing both Daleks away. She got out happy and confused as they walked over.

"Us Smiths have got to stick together." Ricky said while giving her a small hug.

"Jackie Tyler, Rose's mom. Now where the hell is my daughter?" Jackie asked.

"Ah." the Doctor said as he knelt down and looked at his glowing hand. Blowing on it, the glow faded away. "You see. I used the regenerating energy to heal myself but as soon as that was done, I didn't need to change. I didn't want to, why would I? Look at me. When I got done, I siphoned off the rest into a handy, bio-receptacle, namely, my former hand."

He stood up as they continued to watch him, still stunned.

"Remember? Christmas Day? Sycorax? When I got my hand cut off? That's my hand. What do you think?" the Doctor asked shaking it slightly with a bright smile.

Rose slowly looked up and then stepped forward.

"You're still you?" Rose asked.

"I'm still me." the Doctor said happily.

Both hugged, smiling brightly. Outside the T.A.R.D.I.S., four Daleks approached at either of the four corners.

"Report!" the first Dalek said.

"T.A.R.D.I.S. has been located!" a second Dalek said.

"Bring it here!" the Supreme Dalek on a massive moon like ship in the center of the planets around then ordered. "Bring the Doctor to me! Initiate Temporal Prison!"

The four Daleks backed away as a silver glowing energy ring appeared around the T.A.R.D.I.S., near the middle.

"Temporal Prison initiated!" the first Dalek said.

Inside, all power totally shut down. The Doctor ran around, pushing buttons and switches frantically.

"They've got us! Powers totally gone! Some kind of Chrono-loop!" the Doctor said before they were all tossed to one side.

"Transferring the T.A.R.D.I.S. to the Crucible!" the Dalek said.

A strange energy beam came down on the silver ring and pulled the T.A.R.D.I.S. away. Sarah Jane, Ricky and Jackie came up near a vehicle and watched as the T.A.R.D.I.S. was pulled off the planet.

"These teleport things. Can we use them? They've taken the Doctor to the Dalek spaceship and that is where we need to be!" Sarah said as Ricky pulled the circular device from his pocket.

"No. It is only for jumping between universes. It rips a hole in subspace." Ricky said.

"Can we use it?" Sarah asked.

"No. Besides, it needs half an hour before it recharges its energy." Ricky said putting back in his pocket.

Doing the only other option, they surrender to be taken to the Crucible like the other humans had been.

Martha Jones, not wanting to leave home as her mother practically demanded that she stay, used a teleport suit anyway, jumping to an area in Germany to attempt to activate a very powerful and last resort system. Something that involved a device turned on by the Osterhagen Key. A system she knew about but was very reluctant to use unless she had no choice, and even then, she didn't want to.

The T.A.R.D.I.S. was pulled into the Crucible as Ford and Carter watched. K-9 had accessed the data banks and gave them a brief description of what was going to happen, and that was when two came up with a plan during getting dressed. He had his heavy coat on with a very black suit while she was wearing her black leather pants, boots, white undershirt and black leather jacket that wasn't zipped up. Her gun was on her hip along with her extra clips as Ford had his extras in his coat. Both had their glasses on and a couple special Ancient shield devices hanging around their necks.

"All right, we've got the scans, can see what is going on, and know when and where to land. Ready to crash the part dear?" Ford asked.

"Very ready." Carter said grabbing his hand. "You do know, this could be a bad idea. We're not sure how long these Ancient personal shields will last."

"I think long enough. This, shall be, one of the greatest things we've ever done. Besides Sally." Ford said.

"You have to admit, the idea the Daleks is doing is, beyond cool." Carter said impressed.

"Yes, but for all the wrong reasons. But I understand what you mean. If the weapon could be used, like a gun instead a unstoppable shockwave." Ford said pushing a few buttons. "And, here we go."

"Supreme Dalek, activate the…." Davos started yelling when he stopped, as everyone heard a noise they never expected. "Impossible! It was destroyed!"

The Doctor and his friends all looked in confusion and wonder as the T.A.R.D.I.S. appeared several feet from the wall in front of them and behind Davros.

"Activate Temporal Prison!" the Supreme Dalek said as he watched from a screen.

Four Daleks got around it and then looked confused when nothing happened. They tried again only to fail and became confused quickly.

"Report!" the Supreme Dalek yelled.

"Temporal Prison ring has failed to initiate!" one of the Daleks said.

"Doctor, what's going on?" Jack asked.

"I don't know. I'm as confused as you are." the Doctor said though while happy to see the T.A.R.D.I.S., couldn't figure out for the life of him why it was still there.

"Doctor, I don't think that is your T.A.R.D.I.S." Rose said.

"What? How can it not be?!" the Doctor asked.

"Well, it looks too new. In better condition." Rose said.

"Yeah, it does look like she got a new paint job, or something." Jack said as the Doctor put his glasses on and got even more confused as he saw the difference.

"I'd normally be insulted, but that isn't my T.A.R.D.I.S." the Doctor said confused.

Dalek Caan began muttering incomprehensibly as he sputtered. Davos looked back after listening to the group talk, and then turned around quickly as everyone heard the door open. One man walked out and muttered something they barely heard.

"Hmm, this is, very different. I hope this works." Ford muttered scratching his head.

"It should." Carter said stepping out next to him. "You know, they don't look all that scary."

"We've dealt with worse." Ford said casually, then coughed, stuck out his chest and made a commanding speech. "Davros, one chance, surrender now, along with all the Daleks. You have no chance."

"That was pathetic." Carter said as Ford slouched with a sigh while the Daleks looked at Davros for orders.

"Would have sounded better with Hercules." Ford muttered as she agreed.

"The flashing eyes would have helped too." Carter said.

"Who are you and how did you get here?" Davros asked in a demanding tone while not raising his voice.

"We're here to rescue them." Ford said waving at the group behind the shields.

"And save the universe at the same time." Carter stated. "Actually, all of them."

"Exterminate them." Davros ordered pointing at them.

The various Daleks opened fire on them, several times over.

"Done yet?" Ford asked after the seventh shot as he opened his zat.

"I don't think they are going to stop." Carter said while pointing her two zats as her shield took another hit.

Both opened fire, hitting each Dalek with three shots. It was surprising to everyone, including them, when the third shot blew them apart while also making parts or all of them vanish. Several more Daleks showed up, only to be destroyed within seconds.

"Fire in the hole!" Carter yelled covering her ears as the others did the same.

Pulling his personal cannon, Ford shot the few entrances to the room, blowing them up and causing the doorways to be blocked as the former opening caved in. Being in such a confined room, the loud blast resounded around the room making Ford lose his hearing for a moment.

"Damn, I forgot how loud this is in small spaces." Ford said rubbing his right ear and cleaning the blood from busting his eardrum.

"You really need to make silencers. Okay, that's the last one." Carter said. "Wow, the modifications we did to these personal shield devices was better than expected. I think there is enough power left to take a few dozen more hits or more."

"We are geniuses." Ford said while giving his zat to her. "Hello Davros."

Ford removed his glasses, finding a lens cracked, and put them in his coat while holding his personal cannon to Davros's head.

"You are much uglier in person. And I have seen the puppet." Ford stated.

Davros was angry and it was easy to tell as he growled and clenched his fist and then tried to zap him with some electrical attack on his chair that ultimately failed as Ford's shield took the hit.

"You never did know when to quit." Ford said. "Hey Doc. You'll have to forgive me for what I'm going to do. Seriously, this guy is never going to stop."

The Doctor began speaking when Carter spoke.

"Hey K-9, instigate system wide chaos please." Carter said into her wrist.

"Yes Mistress." K-9 said over the com line.

The Crucible and entire Dalek fleet began having serious trouble as a extremely powerful virus ripped into their computer systems and caused untold damage to the programming. The force fields holding the Doctor and Rose dropped as the others got up, a bit shocked at what was happening, though still slightly disoriented especially when the entire structure shook. Carter was getting back to her feet with them while Ford had used Davros's chair to keep from loosing his balance.

"Hmm, that worked better than expected. But then K-9 said it had a 92 percent chance of working." Ford said.

"Well, causing a feedback loop and then placing the virus was a good idea." Carter said.

"True, and it was your idea. Now, even though the Doctor and his friends would probably spare you, or say you deserve a trial or something…" Ford said.

"You should shoot him. In fact, I beg you to." Sarah Jane stated while ignoring the look the Doctor gave her "I have a son Doctor, and we both know that this, evil person would gladly kill him in front of me and you just for the fun of it. He would torture him for personal pleasure."

"Or turn him into a Dalek." Carter said.

"That would be even worse than hell." Jack said.

"You're all right. He is evil." Ford said. "And his existence is a blight to everyone."

"Wait, you can't…" the Doctor began.

"He is ready to wipe out everything to ensure he defeats you Doctor. If he can't have total victory and conquest of the universe, then no one should live is his philosophy." Ford said as he pulled his hammer back. "I have a family to protect, plus my own universe. And in case you forgot, because of him, the Time Lords are gone."

The first shot blew his head away while the second took out what was left of his chest and the third blew his Dalek like chair apart in a shower of sparks and flame. Ford took a deep breath, cough away the smoke he inhaled, then turned, pointing the personal cannon in his left hand at Caan, who was still muttering something no one understood.

"Dalek Caan. You get to live to see the end of this abominable place." Ford said waving the guns around before putting it away after a few twirls. "Ah, Doctor, I have so wanted to meet you for the longest time."

"You just…" the Doctor began in rage.

"Got rid of the biggest threat of the universe. If you haven't noticed, or figured it out, he and the rest of the Daleks were about to use all these planets to make a massive explosion that would have destroyed all the realities, leaving only the Daleks to live in whatever was left over. He and the Daleks are the reason for the Time Lords being all but extinct and leaving you pretty much alone, remember? Doctor, after every encounter you've ever had with him, did you ever for one moment truly believe he was going to change because you defeated him? If so, then you are….the biggest idiot in history, not to mention the most naïve one too." Ford stated fiercely before sighing.

"Hey!" Rose exclaimed.

"I'm sorry, even though I an really honored to meet him…" Ford said turning to her and then back to him as he grabbed the Doctor's hand. "Meet you Doctor. I do know quite a bit about your past. Some of your time during your second regeneration until right now."

The Doctor wasn't sure how to take that as his hand was let go of as the unknown man before him turned to a woman approaching.

"What are we suppose to do now? K-9 gives it ten minutes at most before they managed to purge the virus and be back up and running again. That is assuming the break the feedback loop trouble first." Carter said putting her glasses in her pocket. "I expected this to take much longer."

"It was a bit too easy. Let's see.." Ford said looking at his watch. "Well, we've got a minute or two to talk, then they'll arrive and help with this, so we can get all the planets back in the right places, make a quick trip to a particular planet, and then go home."

"Sounds good to me." Carter said. "Hopefully now we can get some answers about the T.A.R.D.I.S."

"Who are you?" the Doctor asked more confused and surprised than upset at the violence that happened.

"I'm the General." Ford said grabbing the Doctor's surprised hand again. "And this is my lovely wife Samantha."

"This is a real honor." Carter said shaking his hand as the others came over while glancing around as sparks burst out of various areas.

"Yeah, hi. You can't be a Time Lord. I'm the last one. Everyone else died in the Time War…" the Doctor said confused.

"Yeah, so I hear. I wasn't there or have any idea when it happened. Hell, other than knowing the war had something to do with the Daleks, I know little else." Ford said with a shrug. "Good thing we weren't in it either because we would have been merciless."

"How do you know the Doctor?" Rose asked.

"I….can't answer that, at least not right now. We can talk more after dealing with this place." Ford said waving a finger around. "Got to save the universe you know."

"And, that should be them." Carter said glancing at her watch.

Everyone turned to see and hear another T.A.R.D.I.S. land a few feet away from theirs, looking obviously older than the newer one. Another Doctor came out, holding some strange device with a small satellite dish on it. Seeing all the various people and the dead Daleks, plus what was left of Davros, he lowered the strange object in confusion.

"What?" the other Doctor with the weapon asked.

Donna came out next and stopped in confusion.

"What is…" Donna began.

"Should we help or sit back and watch them do it?" Carter asked as she put her hands in her pocket.

"Do what?" most of the others asked.

"Shut down the bomb of course." Ford grumbled with an eye roll. "What else could there be to do?"

"We need to talk…" the Doctor said as he made a wave of his finger and him and Ford.

"Yes, yes. Talk later, save the universe, including mine, now." Ford said as he grabbed the Doctor's arm and pulled him to the machine as Sam followed. "I don't understand how this thing works otherwise Sam and I would be doing it while the rest of you twiddled your thumbs…"

"Hi…" Jack began very flirtatiously as Carter backed away one step with a finger out.

"No way in hell….." Carter said still holding the said finger. "Oh damn. We forgot something important Ford."

"Like what?" Ford asked confused.

"Davros was suppose to shoot Donna. You know…" Carter said ignoring the looks from the others as she pointed at her own head.

"Oh yeah. We did screw that part of the timeline up now didn't we. You have the zat gun." Ford said waving a hand.

"Wait!" the group yelled as Sam shot Donna and then quickly turned on them with the zat.

"Relax people." Ford said as he ignored the glares of hate. "We didn't kill her. She needed to be shocked."

"You know about the future, yet changed history…" the Doctor began.

"Mmm, somewhat." Ford said tilting his hand as he lied. "We didn't get all the details, just enough to know who had a major hand in it and why. We're not even suppose to be here, but ended up getting dragged into this universe. That being the case, we couldn't resist not standing back and watching. Our universe is in jeopardy just like this one because of what the Daleks are trying to do."

"Wow. Well, let's get this show on the road." Donna said seeing as the two Doctor were confused out of their minds along with the others as she stood back up like nothing happened. "You two look like a capable lot. Thanks for the shot by the way. Sort of like a stun gun but without the needles or numbing after effects. Something tells me you both can help send these planets back to their rightful places in the universe."

"I'd love to." Carter said happily as she walked over while Donna began giving them detailed technically and scientific information that only the Doctor's could understand about the device in front of them.

"Donna, they just shot you.." the Doctor said.

"I know. It felt weird at first, but the results were worth it." Donna said smugly as she went back to giving orders, which confused the two Carter's enough they had to be told twice.

"Donna, that's impossible. You can barely plug in…" the Doctor began after she explained what they were pushing to have happen on the device, to the Doctor's surprise.

"No, she's part Time Lord." the more human Doctor said.

"The meta change made me part human, part Time Lord." Donna said happily. "A few more switches and we can activate the Magnetron."

"The Ood knew. Doctor Donna…" the Doctor said with realization as Donna smiled.

"Wait, with the virus we planted, the system isn't going to work correctly." Carter said.

"Yeah, I already took that into the equation and figured out a way around it, which is why you two have been doing what I say. Posh job by the way. I'd applaud but.…" Donna said smugly before pointing as she activated another part with her other hand. "Now, push that next and you turn that…."

"Why do I have the feeling like I suddenly became a fifth wheel…" the Doctor said confused as he backed away and looked at the two T.A.R.D.I.S's in confusion.

"You're telling me." the more human Doctor said.

"Wait a minute Donna." Jack said extremely confused to the point he considered it a good feeling since it had been such a long time since he felt this way. "How in the hell are you so smart and acting like the Doctor?"

"The T.A.R.D.I.S. was dying around me, and a nasty shake made the container holding the Doctor's former hand fall over and break. The energy unleashed out and when I reached for it, it took part of me making him regenerate from the hand while giving me part of the Doctor's mind. Personally I am loving every second of this superior intellect feeling." Donna said with a small giddy laugh.

"Master. Mistress."

"Yes K-9." the two said as the dog came out of their T.A.R.D.I.S.

"Danger…" K-9 began.

"Oh my! K-9!" both Doctor's said excited.

"Wait, is it my K-9?" Sarah asked happy to see him as well as the three were looking at him.

"Negative on both accounts Doctor and Mrs. Smith. I belong solely to the Carters. Your excitement to see me is appreciated." K-9 said.

"Only two planets left." Carter said flipping another switch that Donna pointed out.

"Yep." Donna said with a chirpy attitude before laughing. "Goodbye Lost Moon of Posh. Oh wait, that's glad to have you back former Lost Moon of Posh!"

"And finally Ear…wait..." Ford said looking back at K-9. "You said danger…"

"Exterminate!"

They all turned to look seeing one Dalek functioning and quickly realized which one it was, being the Supreme Dalek because of its size, and got down as it fired twice. One beam hit the device making Donna back up as Carter dived to the floor while pulling her gun. The other blast hit Ford only because he moved in the way purposely so the people behind him wouldn't be hit. He was knocked back as the energy bolt blew up on his chest and went through him, landing on the floor hard as Carter fired her gun several times with all her shots bouncing off a shield. Hitting the Ancient shield on the necklace, it turned on just as the Dalek fired at her and almost burned it out. The human like Doctor went for the strange satellite weapon he set aside only to stop as it was blown away.

"Your virus has been purged. You will surrender!" the Supreme Dalek said while moving forward with its weapon pointed. "Or be exterminated!"

"And we only had the one planet, ironically Earth, to return back to its rightful spot." Donna muttered as everyone got to their feet and backed away.

"You efforts to stop the Daleks have failed! We will destroy the Earth, thereby insuring our victory as time is altered on a grand scale, the repercussions of which will destroy the very universe itself!" the Supreme Dalek stated.

"K-9, get rid of that please…" Carter said.

"Affirmative Mistress." K-9 said while turning around.

The Dalek pointed its weapon and fired, doing nothing as Carter expected. She dropped her hands as the Dalek blew up under a concentrated blast that lasted five seconds from K-9's intense laser.

"Thank you K-9." Carter said taking off her shield device and pocketing it.

"Gratitude appreciated Mistress." K-9 said as his ear twitched.

"He's not regenerating." Jack said as Sam turned to look at Ford's body for a good minute while K-9 blasted the other Daleks in the room that started to come back online.

"A hit like that he can't regenerate from, no Time Lord could." the Doctor said sadly as he looked at the poor man.

"Oh, he can't. Not like a normal Time Lord anyway. More like you do." Carter said shrugging, while ignoring the look from Martha who was checking on Ford. "Okay, we had a general idea of what the future was, but aren't really sure what happened to fix everything, so, any ideas on how to send this Earth back…"

"Forgive me, but you don't seem rather disturbed about him dying…" the Doctor began, though still upset with the man, saddened because the man was a Time Lord, though the Doctor was still confused about how and why.

Jack saw the hole in the man's body start fading away as a yellowish energy glow appeared in it and Martha only noticed it at the last second.

"Fuck that hurt!" Ford yelled as he sat up suddenly grabbing his chest, scaring the hell out of Martha as she jumped back with a scream. "Damn it! Burned a large hole in my suit that vaporized my dog tags and the rest of the stuff on my chain. That was not the normal weapon for a Dalek!"

"He was the Supreme Dalek. That really sucks though. Making those remote callers is a serious pain in the ass. We can't replicate all the parts for it." Carter grumbled while helping him to his feet. "And I still haven't gotten the whistle right."

"What's happening?" Ford asked as he grumbled about the fact the blast had also burned a hole in the clothes in his back, leaving the metal mesh intact and visible.

"What the hell is that?" Jack asked.

"Adamantium mesh built into the lining." Ford said. "Impervious to practically everything. Where we now?"

"The device is blown, the group is confused, the Daleks are slowly getting back in control, the Earth is the last planet left, and we're trying to figure out what to do next." Carter said.

"Information Mistress. Several Dalek patrols our on their way to our position. Arrival in one minute. I will be unable to take them all before they over take our position." K-9 stated.

"We can get the Earth home and us out of here using the T.A.R.D.I.S." the Doctor said as he rushed into his.

"What about the Daleks?" Jack asked.

"Yeah, like this strange bloke said before, the Daleks will never stop." Ricky said.

"No, I said Davros would never stop." Ford said.

"Same difference." Carter said. "Let's finish this so we can get back home to Atlantis. Let's leave a Mark X behind with a ten second delay after we all leave."

"Or, we can reverse the reality bomb and cause a massive overload that will not only take out the Crucible, but all the Daleks in the process." the human like Doctor said as he and Donna moved to the controls. "There is enough of them here to take over the cosmos."

"Though this bloody machine is seriously damaged, enough still works to finish these buggers." Donna said while working on different parts. "Can I have your Sonic Screwdriver for a moment?"

Sam gave hers over as she helped do what she could with the human Doctor.

"Time is running out." Ford said as he got his guns ready.

Several Daleks entered the room and from above only to start spinning and then explode as the human like Doctor, Carter and Donna finished.

"Do we sit back…" Carter began as she put her Sonic Screwdriver in her coat.

"Hell no! You, no, I'll go with them into the Doctor's T.A.R.D.I.S. and you can come get us so we can show them how we do it." Ford said.

"I like the sound of that. We do it." Carter said smiling.

"How can you two do anything?" the human like Doctor asked.

"Come Doctor. Let me show you our T.A.R.D.I.S." Carter said proudly as Ford pushed the confused Doctor back into his T.A.R.D.I.S. with the others.

Both ships left and then the Doctor's T.A.R.D.I.S. shook to the Doctor's fear.

"We're inside another T.A.R.D.I.S. I can't do anything." the Doctor said while rushing around the console.

"Mine is suppressing yours." Ford said casually as he looked at the console in confusion. "No offense, but why in the hell did you change the Console Room? I can't make head or tails out of this. Where is the door control on this thing anyway?"

Donna reached over and activated the appropriate system as the Doctor was glaring at Ford.

"You know, this is all very confusing, but I must say, you aren't really doing anything to help your fan base for the Doctor." Jack said with a smile as he saw the look the Doctor gave Ford.

"I am trying to help save the universe, wait, many universes, including my own where I would like to go back to my daughter." Ford said returning the glare. "I will pick my family and friends over trying to stop instead of kill a race of creatures that have no other purpose than to conquer and kill."

"You just helped in the genocide in the Dalek race!" the Doctor yelled.

"Yeah, been there, done that. I helped get rid of a species that only had one goal in mind, total universal domination. Wait, I'm sorry, we did that already and are currently working to get rid of another alien race in our universe that only looks at other life forms, excluding animal life, as food. And I can give you proof that no amount of negotiation will work. Both species, and both different, want nothing more than to…"

"Ford, are you going to come out here and help me save this universe or are you going to continue going on about ours when you can do that later?" Carter said from the door way before walking out of view.

"Oh, I like her!" Donna said with a smile.

"So do I." Rose said as she followed Donna out.

"Finally, a girl with as much or more brains than the Doctor." Martha said as she followed them out too along with Sarah, who was also happy and agreed with her.

"And who knows how to take charge." Donna said.

"I know who wears the pants in your relationship." Jack said with a sly smile.

"I can't and won't complain." Ford said with a shrug. "Our marriage works exceptionally well since I have always thought women to be the stronger sex. Not always physically, but in just about everything else really. And if you deny it, tell me something. If there was no one in the universe left, would you rather spend it with a woman where you can enjoy the benefits of having a family, or the other, which I find a rather revolting thought myself. By the way Doctor, your daughter Jenny, made from the current you, is alive. You forgot to take into the account of the twenty four hour regeneration energy thing. Remember your hand?"

Jack said nothing as, did the Doctor who had a mixed look on his face as his brain told him the truth of the fact, as Ford walked out, slowly followed by the others and then him and the Doctor. They, along with the others, were surprised at what they found as Donna, the human like Doctor, and the two owners of the unknown T.A.R.D.I.S. were working on the console as the large window was showing them what they were doing, which was dragging the Earth back through time and space to its original location.

"Sam, you got that…" Ford said.

"Yeah, stabilizing the power feed.." Carter said pushing the right buttons.

"This is in English." Sarah stated by Carter in fascination.

"I can't read the Time Lord language." Carter stated before pointing. "Push this and…."

"This is incredible!" the human like Doctor said as he was helping with the controls he understood.

"You're telling me." Donna said while working on a console beside him. "I'm having a blast! No wonder you go everywhere and save anyone and everyone you can!"

"It is exhilarating isn't it!" the human like Doctor said.

"I have to say, moving Atlantis was harder since I had no help really, besides you K-9." Ford said as the console sparked at him making him shake his hand. "And it was just a city. A fairly large city…"

"The Crucible is destroyed, along with the Daleks." Carter said as the console sparked near her fingers. "Damn. I'm okay."

"Good, one less evil in the universe." Ford muttered.

"If I am reading this correctly, we should be stopping in 43 seconds." Donna said as a holographic screen suddenly appeared in front of her with a countdown. "Oh, I am right. Wow! That is incredible!"

"How is this possible?" the human like Doctor asked as the Doctor came over and started checking things out next to him with interest. "This is like no configuration I have ever seen."

"This T.A.R.D.I.S. has integrated with two vast alien technologies." Carter said. "One called the Ancients, or Alterans. And the Asguard."

"Asguard?" both Doctor's along with Donna asked, followed by Jack.

"Not who you might be thinking. Where we are from, they are the so called grays on Earth." Ford said while hitting the console as it didn't respond to his command, only to do so after being smacked. "Gray bodies, no gender, small forms with the big eyes."

"Is this suppose to blink rapidly…" Sarah asked as Carter looked and then told her several things to do.

"Damn, this is a lot different from ships and a flying city." Ford said as the T.A.R.D.I.S. shook for a moment. "Martha, can you hold down that and turn that slowly, say every three seconds, up a notch."

"Sure." Martha said.

The T.A.R.D.I.S. shook a few more times and started to tilt as they finally got to the location needed.

"And, stop." Carter said hitting a few last switches with the others as the ship righted itself.

The T.A.R.D.I.S. shuddered for a moment but not enough to knock anyone off their feet as she came to a complete stop and dematerialized above Earth.

"Mission successful Mistress, Master." K-9 announced. "The Earth has been returned to her proper position and in time in space."

"Well, chalk up another save for the Earth. Not ours, but still counts." Ford said proudly as he patted the console as everyone else besides him and Sam cheered greatly. "Good work girl. And all of you too."

"We could tell Teal'c, but I don't think it would matter since he only counts when he and the others help." Carter said.

"Not our universe either." Ford said.

"True. I don't think he counts saving that other Earth, back when Daniel activated the Mirror, either." Carter said.

"Incredible!" the Doctor said. "You managed to take the Earth inside the T.A.R.D.I.S. time field and bring her back to her rightful place without having to drag her along as I was thinking of. And there is no real adverse effects either."

"More power, more abilities, less stress on the Earth." both Carter's said together.

"Looks like everyone else on Earth is also celebrating." Donna said as she pushed a few buttons that showed news clips that said Earth has returned home, or words along those lines with fireworks and other parties happening.

"Well, what do you know? Those who know who you are Doctor think you are behind the rescue." Jack said as the screens showed a few things, such as U.N.I.T. celebrating.

"Let's keep it that way. We don't need any glory." Ford grumbled. "God I wish we could see that on our Earth though."

"Sad really. We'd probably not have an Earth to return to." Carter said. "If it was the Cybermen, we could easily stop that."

"Got enough gold to do it. If the Daleks attacked our Earth, mass panic would destroy the world since no one would understand what was happening, why it was happening when it shouldn't be, and there would be very few countries that could even stand against them." Ford muttered.

"Wait, does that mean your Earth has absolutely no idea about aliens?" the Doctor asked only to be shocked when the two nodded. "That's almost impossible! Aliens have been to Earth for eons practically."

"Not for us, but we are from another universe entirely. Only top level people in several of the nations top governments even know about the fact life is out there." Carter stated. "And only through the SGC, based in Colorado at the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, does any activity dealing with other planets even happen. We even have allies with other races, alien races, and even that is kept as a well guarded secret."

"Wow. There must be a lot more secrets being kept on many levels." Jack said. "I know how that is."

"A lot more than you can imagine." Ford said. "As much as it would be nice to give you a run down of what we do and have been doing for the last ten years or so, it would take days alone just on the short version."

"And despite being in a time machine, time is actually against us." Carter said. "We got dragged into this universe and since that hole between alternate universes is closing, we'll need to leave before we end up possibly being stuck here permanently."

"Seriously?" Ford asked surprised.

"This universe is much different since the T.A.R.D.I.S. technically comes from this one. If we aren't gone in the next twenty four hours, our time, we don't get back." Carter said showing him the readout.

"The Mistress is correct Master." K-9 stated. "With the loss of the Time Lords, it is not only dangerous, but this universe is unstable with openings between universes not being watched and controlled. Further information Master, if we do not leave before the appointed time, we will never return, and you along with the T.A.R.D.I.S. will die."

"Clarify K-9." Ford said worried and confused.

"You are a living link Master to the multiverse. With the Doctor needing to shut down the bridges between the universe here in order to maintain stability, the effect will also impact on you and your T.A.R.D.I.S. You will go first, followed by the T.A.R.D.I.S. at some point soon." K-9 stated.

"K-9 showed me the results of his scans and search earlier. I just hadn't gotten around to saying anything yet." Carter said sadly as she saw his sorrowful look while gently grabbing his arm. "I'm sorry Ford, we can't come back here."

"This is so far beyond unfair." Ford grumbled.

"I'm sorry to interrupt, but what does K-9 mean by living link? And where did you get him to begin with?" the Doctor asked.

"Another you in another universe, from a, copy of me, sort of." Ford said confusing them greatly. "Don't ask."

"I'm going to assume you mean that answer to be about K-9." the Doctor stated as the two Carter's nodded. "What about this living link thing?"

"K-9, put my DNA on the screen, details as well please." Ford said as he rubbed his tired eyes and then pushing buttons on the console.

"Picture up Master. Instructions understood." K-9 said as he was beamed away suddenly.

"Where did K-9 go?" Carter asked.

"Needed him to check something out in the T.A.R.D.I.S." Ford said while shifting his eyes in a way Carter understood.

She saw him look over at the Doctor's T.A.R.D.I.S. that had its door facing away from them all currently. While the group was talking, K-9 moved into it quietly to look up information that Ford requested through the console in the Doctor's T.A.R.D.I.S.

"This is incredible! It is amazing your DNA hasn't fallen apart or fragmented." the Doctor said as he looked it over with his glasses on.

"Are you a hemor…" Martha began asking as Ford quickly shook his head.

"Hell no! What the hell gave you that idea?" Ford asked as he looked himself over for a moment.

"You have two X chromosomes along with the Y." the Doctor said intrigued.

"Kinky. I met a few of those…." Jack said as Ford shook for a moment in revulsion and then sighed.

"This is has to be Chevy's fault." Ford grumbled.

"Why would you…oh." Carter said as she was sure she was thinking the same thing he was. "You do know she's probably saying the same thing right now."

Ford grumbled again, which Sam was sure was in Japanese and then everyone like her was startled by a large sneeze from him, which he did cover in time with a hanky.

"Excuse me." Ford said pocketing the hanky before grumbling again under his breath.

"You identified this gene sequence here as the likely unknown element of his genetic makeup that allows him to be a conduit for traversing between and to other universes." the Doctor said as he pointed at the slowly spinning DNA strand. "Incredible!"

"It's the only thing we medically couldn't understand at the time. And this was before he was a Time Lord." Carter said.

"Before?" the Doctor asked confused.

Carter and Ford went over the story behind trying to see if they could access the gene in him, which lead to activating the Quantum Mirror, which Jack and the Doctor found extremely fascinating as a picture of it was shown, where Ford took over and told them about his encounter with Q and the White Guardian. And that he was there because he had almost destroyed all the universes with his stupid stunt.

"You're that Time Lord then!" the Doctor said pointing at him, startling Ford considerably. "The White Guardian and…um, well, anyway, they told me about you. I never actually thought I'd run into you though. You're not what I expected."

"You got to meet Q. Arrogant ass isn't he?" Ford asked.

"Not really sure who this Q is. Strange name from someone." the Doctor said as he turned back to the DNA strand. "You technically have a quadruple Helix here, just missing a few things to be a complete one, yet you're mostly human looking. Then again, so do I."

"Wow, and I thought seeing the Doctor's DNA was different." Martha said. "Wait, you said you two have children?"

"A daughter. But she was before he became a Time Lord." Carter said, seeing the Doctor looked relieved and yet devastated at the same time. "We plan on having more though."

"Is that even possible?" the Doctor asked. "It's amazing your body isn't breaking down to begin with. This is all….."

"Doctor?" Martha asked as she saw his jaw drop.

"No. I don't believe it." the Doctor said as he suddenly turned and started working on the console.

"What are you doing Doctor?" Rose asked, seeing both Doctor's were now looking at the console with sort of fearful looks.

The group looked at Donna as she suddenly gasped.

"Donna, what's wrong?" Jack asked.

"You see it too don't you Donna?" the Doctor asked.

"I'm not the only one who had that energy in them then. But…." Donna said unsure as everyone was looking at Ford.

The screen changed as one of the Doctor's finished whatever they were doing on the console to show a side by side comparison to a energy reading, a energy exclusive to the T.A.R.D.I.S. only, and Ford's DNA. His entire DNA strand had the same energy in it, concentrated in certain parts of the strands, but otherwise in all of it.

"Oh that. I thought it was something dangerous." Ford said shrugging. "Not sure what it is, but my head got cut off, another long story, and then that energy surrounded my body and put my head back on and brought me back to life. I've regenerated once, but my appearance changed very little as did my personality."

"Every cell in your body…" the Doctor began.

"Has that energy in it, we know." Carter said. "He's died quite a few times since then, but always comes back. The only downside, besides practically living forever, is he'll only die when the T.A.R.D.I.S. dies. Well, not right away, he'll just die normally from what we understand since he won't be able to come back anymore."

"You're a lot like me then. When Rose brought me back when she had the…" Jack began.

"Yeah." Ford said. "I did have the same energy going through me too before the White Guardian brought me to him. Well, seeing as time is running out for us, I think we should get you all home. Starting with Sarah."

"Why her?" the Doctor asked.

"She has a child of her own to get back to. And from what I can tell of these readings, there is more children in her house, more than likely waiting to see if she survived." Ford said as he worked the controls.

Sarah said her goodbyes and thanked them, giving the Doctor, both of them, one last hug along with Ford, before heading out after Ford landed in the driveway to her house.

Next was dropping off Jack and Martha. The Doctor shut off Jack's teleporter and seeing as the Doctor insisted that the Osterhogen key was too dangerous to even exist, he took it from Martha and tossed it to Sam, seeing as they would take it away where it wouldn't come back. After the two gave them all a quick salute, with Ford especially happy that Jack didn't try kissing everyone and only shook his and Sam's hands, they walked out into Cardiff where Ford landed. Mickey also left seeing as he had nothing to return to in the parallel world and wanted to start a brand new life in the world he was once in. Rose gave him a kiss on the cheek and then after a few hugs, he walked out following Jack and Martha.

"I shouldn't have to ask, but can you take them home as well?" the Doctor asked.

"Where to?" Carter asked.

"Bad Wolf Bay." K-9 said.

"We haven't been there yet K-9." Ford said.

"Why there?" Rose asked, not getting an answer.

"We have the coordinates Master." K-9 said, now sitting at Ford and Sam's feet under the console.

"Where did he come from? I never saw the door open." the Doctor said.

"Probably beamed back in. It is easier than traveling the vast hallways." Ford said while scratching his ear.

"But how would you have the coordinates?" the other Doctor asked.

"Scans of your, or I mean, Rose's quantum signature." Carter said as she activated the controls. "We do have some extra's on this T.A.R.D.I.S. you don't have."

"Theoretically, that works. It is another Earth and the quantum signature would be a place to start." the Doctor said as they landed on a beach in the other universe.

"Why did we come here?" Rose asked after they got out. "I wanted to stay with you."

"You can't." the Doctor said. "With the destruction of the reality bomb, everything's changed. Once the opening in the void closes, there will be no way to go back and forth between universes."

"But…." Rose began.

"Rose, being a Time Lord has a seriously bad consequence." Ford said interrupting the group. "Even before I became one, I was an Immortal, another long story. I could die, but it took certain circumstances, and if they never happened, I would live and live, like Jack."

"The problem with living practically forever is that you can only spend so much time with the person you love. One day, time is going to take me away like it does everyone." Carter said. "If you stayed with the Doctor, this Doctor, you would eventually die and he'd continue on."

"They're right Rose. It would hurt to see you die if you stayed with me. And there is no guarantee that you'd even live to old age." the Doctor said. "Besides, you need to stay with him."

"Why?" Rose asked.

"He has to stay here." the Doctor said. "He committed genocide of a species…."

"That deserved it." Ford broke in as he pointed fingers, but kept his voice in a normal tone. "The only difference between him and you is the fact he's more human than you are Doctor. And if you want another way to look at it, his more human side saw the Daleks for what they were, monsters and a blight. They were created for one purpose and that purpose has never changed since the time you first encountered them. They were willing to destroy everything, including multiple universes, including themselves to ensure that no one lived if they couldn't have universal domination. Nothing you could have said or done would make them change their minds. After all the battles you've had with them, it finally came down to a choice, they go, or everyone goes."

"He's right." the other Doctor said. "They wouldn't have stopped. They took on our own people to ensure they could go about universal conquest with little resistance, and in the end, both sides paid for it, dearly. The only problem is that we can't bring our people back where they could built their army back, at the cost of many human lives."

"I'm sorry Doctor." Ford said as he put a hand on his shoulder. "But you're near your last regeneration, where I have none and would come help fight and save people here in this universe if I could, but can't. All you can do is help where you can, get rid of those enemies that won't and you know, no matter what you do, will never surrender to ensure whatever race it is, can survive when you're finally gone."

"Rose, though I am everything he is, memories, experiences and all that, I have only one heart, and as such, will be subject to time just like any other human." the other Doctor said after the Doctor didn't say anything for a minute. "I would like that remaining time to be spent with you, if you're willing."

"I would…" Rose began.

They all turned as they heard a grinding noise followed by a bell ringing.

"Time's about up." Ford said reaching into his pocket.

"We've got to go then." the Doctor said. "It was nice to see you again Rose. Take care of her."

"I will." the other Doctor said as the group headed towards the T.A.R.D.I.S.

"Here. Just make sure you don't do anything that breaks it. You won't be able to get another one to replace it." Ford said tossing a small box to the other Doctor before heading into the T.A.R.D.I.S.

"Did you give him a Sonic Screwdriver?" the Doctor asked as the door closed.

"Well, yeah. If you're places were reversed, wouldn't you want one?" Ford asked as the T.A.R.D.I.S. returned to the other universe.

"Where to next then?" Donna asked as the T.A.R.D.I.S. was slowly spinning above the Earth. "You still have well over ten hours plus to check things out before you have to go home. We could go, go, go, go….."

Several go's later she stopped and then shook her head.

"What was that?" Carter asked.

"I'm fine. It was nothing." Donna said quickly.

"No Donna, it was something. She's sort of experiencing the same thing Jack O'Neill and I went through when we had that head grabbing thing the Ancients had that downloaded all that information into our brains." Ford said.

"You had a alien species download their history and all that into your brain?" the Doctor asked as he stopped halfway to where Donna was, leaning on the console and blinking her eyes.

"I didn't know who I was, in a sense and such. Another long story we'll never get to. Point is, just like Donna is experiencing now, Jack and I were unable to contain it and without intervention from another alien race who are very well advanced, we wouldn't have survived." Ford said.

"What? What do you mean? I'm just fine." Donna said as she began to prattle on with nonsense the next second and then grab her head with a gasp of pain.

"You can't help her Sam. The Doctor is the only one that can." Ford said after grabbing her arm.

"But…" Carter began even though she knew what was going to happen anyway.

"This is so not fair." Donna said as she rubbed her teary eyes. "I don't want to go back to who I was."

"Donna, you do know what will happen if you don't let it go?" the Doctor asked.

"Yes." Donna said before she suddenly moved away and started working over the different controls, much to the surprise of the rest of them. "But we have this, and them, and this wonderful dog! We can find a way to fix this. I can stay, forever, as I want to. Travel with you through the universe forever. I don't want to leave…."

"Isn't there anything we can do?" Carter asked as she grabbed the poor women after she collapsed on the ground to her knees holding her head again. "There has to be something…."

"Sam, if there was, I'd done it already. And if there was, Jack would have went through with having his head implanted with all that knowledge again just so he could outsmart the two of us and just about everyone else." Ford said while kneeling down next to the shaking woman.

"Jack did ask that didn't he." Carter said with a small humorless chuckle. "I would have tried that too."

"Please, I don't want to go back to what I was…" Donna begged with tears as the Doctor knelt down in front of her.

"I'm sorry Donna Noble. You were great in so many ways and we had so much fun. I'm sorry." the Doctor said as he gently touched the sides of her head with his hands and stared into her eyes.

She cried out briefly before passing out seconds later in Carter's arms. Working the controls, they landed outside Donna's house and knocked on the door. The grandfather was scared when he saw her being held by two men and some lady he didn't know nearby. They took her upstairs and set her on the bed before going back downstairs to sit and talk.

"She took my mind into her own head, but that's a Time Lords consciousness. All that knowledge, and it was killing her." the Doctor said. "Her human brain couldn't handle it."

"But she'll get better right?" the grandfather asked.

"Yeah, she'll be just fine." Ford said.

"There's going to be one major downside though." Carter said.

"I had to wipe her mind, completely. Everything she's ever had happen to her since she met me, is all gone." the Doctor said.

"Everything, all those wonderful things, the stuff she told me about, all gone?" the grandfather asked sadly as he started to tear up.

"Everything." the Doctor said. "That version of her is dead and can't come back. She can never remember, anything at all, for if for one second, she'll burn up instantly. You can't tell her any of it, nothing at all. Nothing, you understand?"

The two grandparents nodded.

"But what about the fact we just traveled from one place and then back to here?" the grandmother asked. "Everyone saw it and will be talking about it?"

"It will all be a story to her. And you have to make sure she believe that it is just that." the Doctor stated. "Nothing more."

"Don't be interested in it." Ford said.

"Laugh if off saying it isn't real." Carter said.

"We'll be outside. I think she is waking." Ford said as the two headed out.

"Yes, that is it exactly." the Doctor said as he stood up slowly and head the door close. "Just so you know, if no one else. Because of her, so many lives have been saved, this planet has been saved, there are songs about her being sung, millions and millions of light years away. And for one moment, one shining moment that history will never know, she was the most important woman in the universe. Maybe you should tell her that once and awhile."

"I was asleep, in my clothes, like a slipping kid!" Donna said as she entered the room. "Hello. Oh, don't mind me. Name's Donna."

"John Smith." the Doctor said shaking her hand as she was playing with her cell phone.

"Mr. Smith was just leaving." the grandmother said unhappily, as the two stood.

The Doctor walked out, looked at the night sky and spoke to the grandfather a moment before walking over and heading into the cracked door to the T.A.R.D.I.S., almost forgetting that his was inside.

"This has been a very strange experience. We really never thought we'd met you this way." Ford said after flipping a switch to make them take off and land on the moon.

"I must say, it is even stranger for me." the Doctor said looking at his T.A.R.D.I.S. a moment. "So, I'm not alone, my daughter lives and though being the only other Time Lord, you can't stay."

"And I hate that fact. This is the one universe I wish I could come and go to like I can with the others in our universe." Ford said tapping the console with his fist. "You won't understand this, mostly because I can't go into it, but out of all the famous people I've seen in my universe, you're the one I've wanted to see the most."

"Even knowing this, we also knew that we'd clash as soon as you knew what we did." Carter said.

"Did? You mean like back there with the Daleks?" the Doctor asked waving his thumb over his shoulder.

"In our universe, there is alien life just like in this one, comparing it to being on Earth most of our lives. But there isn't a lot of other alien races that are more dominate than others because of a particular alien race that was dominating the Milky Way galaxy." Ford said still looking at the console as Sam was more or less looking at the Doctor as she leaned with her back to the console next to Ford.

"Well, most of the Milky Way. The point is, this alien race did not negotiate. It was their way or you died. You already know humans will refuse to give in, especially the military. We both work with the Air Force and helped get rid of that blight which had been dominating our galaxy for well over a thousand years." Carter said as the Doctor listened with interest while leaning on his T.A.R.D.I.S.

"Sometime tells me that all of them weren't bad." the Doctor said.

"No, there is a faction called the Tok'ra." Ford said bring up a detailed picture of the two beings on the screen. "The Goa'uld about wiped them out though, but some still survive."

"Interesting species. Almost like nothing I have seen before." the Doctor said.

"Doctor, you remember encountering the vampires back when you were a lot taller and had that really cool scarf?" Ford asked looking at the man as he turned with a smile.

"I really did like that scarf. I still have it somewhere." the Doctor said smiling fondly before turning serious. "Why?"

"The Time Lords helped exterminate the vampires. Total genocide." Ford said as the Doctor's eyes narrowed. "The Daleks were the same. In many ways, the Cybermen are even worse because they take life and change it into their kind, which isn't much different from what the Goa'uld did."

"I do see your point. I don't like it though." the Doctor said putting his glasses away.

"We still have a couple hours before we need to go." Carter said, hope in her eyes. "Despite what we've done and what you, somewhat know we do, can we still sit and all talk, or are you wanting to leave?"

"Well, I can't deny talking to people from another universe is appealing, not to mention, you are another Time Lord." the Doctor said as he rolled on the balls of his feet thinking.

"Doctor, I know for a fact that all of the Time Lords didn't think like you did, and I never met any Time Lord but you. And the Master was basically a complete opposite of you and I've seen what he's done, including that crap he pulled with using your T.A.R.D.I.S. to try and change time for his benefit and then dying in your arms when he got shot." Ford said. "The only thing I got going for me, is that in our universe, I have no rival like him and I'm sorry to have to say this to you, but I would have killed him before he could have gotten any farther in that plan of his."

"You know what, despite the fact I want to leave just because of knowing you helped get rid of the Daleks with no remorse, my curiosity to hear how you know about that happening and also knowing about my past makes me want to stay and listen." the Doctor said seeing the two smile with him. "You're in another universe, so I can't stop you, but I'm sure you'll take my advice."

For the next two hours, they three did talk, laugh and exchange a lot of information, even though the Doctor did find the fact that another universe, watched what he did as entertainment, it also didn't surprise him, which is what the two started with for the conversation starter before going on.

"Well, this has to be the most strangest and yet the most exciting two hour conversation I have ever had in all my lives. And even though you do a lot of things that I am more or less morally against, you do it with good intentions. Plus, once I eventually die and don't come back, barring I come across something that makes me live longer, I will go knowing that the Time Lords won't be gone or forgotten, not only in this universe, but also in yours." the Doctor said refusing to shake Fords hand and hugging the surprised man. "Just try to at least do more saving than killing."

"I'll try Doctor, just for you." Ford said.

He hugged Sam as well, making her promise to keep Ford in line since he learned that Sam was one of the few people who would do whatever she said, which she promised. Once they took the Doctor's T.A.R.D.I.S. out of his, doing so on a location on Earth, the Doctor left leaving them standing and looking at the sun set over Cardiff.

"Well, we got just over an hour left." Carter said as the two held each other's waist. "What are you thinking?"

"Extending your life to last a long time if I am lucky." Ford said with a smile of hope.

"How so?" Carter asked with wonder.

"Well, if K-9 found out what I was looking for…" Ford said as they went back in and left as they saw a few U.N.I.T. vehicles coming up the hill on a road towards them.

Jumping many years into the future, but into the Time Lord people's past, barely being able to disguise and shield the T.A.R.D.I.S. from scans from the Time Lords, Ford landed on a rather bad and dreary looking, yet habitable planet, landing several months after the Doctor with the long scarf had left with a young Sarah Jane Smith. It took a lot of work on Ford's part, plus begging, to get the women on that planet to give him less than a ounce of the precious liquid they had, which the Time Lords used at one point early in their history to help create their Time Lord abilities.

(A.N. If anyone reading this knows about the Tom Baker episodes, they should know what episode I am talking about. I haven't found the name of that episode, I just know which one it is and have it on tape somewhere. Something to do with a Time Lord brain being the main plot. Brain of Mobius or Morpheus, something like that. )

Once back in their universe, with Sam rather skeptical but helping, it took over a month with K-9's help to figure out how to make the formula to work for a human, using the device left over from Merlin to create objects from air, to get it right according to simulations and with Keller helping and finally agreeing that the only way to see if it was right was to have Sam try it, seeing as she was the one it was for and because it was made for her unique physiology seeing as she did have Ford's heart in her, making her not as human as before in some ways.

"I don't feel any different." Carter said after drinking in while sitting in the infirmary for ten minutes.

"I want you to stay in here, just in case. And leave the T.A.R.D.I.S. here General as well. Along with K-9." Keller said.

"I don't mind staying here." Carter said happily. "That gets me out of paperwork so I can help Sally with her homework, then we can do something else."

"You call me the moment anything changes." Ford said to the three before going to do Sam's job for the day. "I don't care if she sneezes, I want to know."

Keller nodded and Ford left, very reluctantly, but only because Sam told him to go get the work done otherwise she would end up having backed up work when she was working again.

Three days later, Sam finally fell asleep when she got to tired to stay awake as the change to her body, though slow, took place. In the end, the formula worked, making it so her body aged very, very slowly. She was still human, for the most part and susceptible to things like most humans, aside from her incredible immune system, and unfortunately could die if she was injured bad enough like everyone else, but otherwise, would live for a very long time as long as she didn't get killed, which Ford was so ecstatic over after learning the results of, so much so he cried and fell asleep in her lap on that third night.